Development plan distance & number of parking spaces

Hello everyone,

I would need some support with the interpretation of a development plan.

It concerns the section about the garages:

According to § 12 para. 6 of the Building Use Ordinance, parking spaces, garages, and carports are permitted in the building areas both within and outside the buildable property areas. A distance of at least 5 m must be maintained to traffic areas.

It is also stipulated that 2 parking spaces per residential unit must be proven on the property.
This also includes garage parking spaces.

My reading is this:

Two parking spaces must be available and each of these two parking spaces must have a distance of 5 m to the street, for example a double garage with a 5 m driveway.

My reading is reinforced by the passage in the reasoning for the development plan:

According to § 12 para. 6 of the Building Use Ordinance, parking spaces, garages, and carports are permitted in the building area both within and outside the buildable property areas.

A distance of at least 5 m must be maintained to traffic areas in order to ensure that an additional parking area for cars on the property is guaranteed.

It is also stipulated that 2 parking spaces per residential unit must be proven on the property.
This also includes garage parking spaces.

This stipulation ensures that there are no traffic obstructions caused by parked cars in the street area.

The building area is a traffic-calmed zone without additional parking spaces.

Therefore, I do see the intention that the owners' cars stand in the garage and possible visitors then park in the driveway.

However, quite a few single garages were built and when - cautiously - asking how this could fit with the development plan, rather thin answers came back. I must be mistaken, it reads differently, etc.

Therefore my question: am I really mistaken? Is a single garage including a 5 m driveway sufficient?

The corresponding building applications were accepted by the municipality as such (or nobody really looked closely at it).

But if I am right and double garages or similar are necessary, what would be the worst case for the owners of single garages if the municipality comes up with the idea to enforce the development plan?

Thanks in advance.
Otmar

So my question is: am I really mistaken? Is a single garage with a 5m driveway sufficient?

In my interpretation, no. Every parking space must maintain a 5m distance.
We have a similar rule. It’s not just about visitor parking spaces, but about the garage door. In our case, the distance requirement is waived for electric garage doors. (When asked how it is with carports, the answer was simply "carports count like garages"... but we already have a corner for the driveway, so the distance is created automatically)

The corresponding building applications were accepted by the municipality as such (or nobody really looked at them carefully).

There is also the notification procedure (at least here in BW, I don’t know about elsewhere), where no one checks if it’s correct but only confirms that all documents are present multiple times. Otherwise, it can’t be ruled out that the building authorities don’t really know the development plans correctly.

would the worst case be for the single garage owners if the municipality comes up with the idea to push the development plan?

Then they probably have, next to the single garage or carport, a small spot that they could designate as a parking space. Whether planned and executed, or planned and not executed.